she/he, here for the yuri and the cool bugs
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a typical example of a juvenile turkey vulture perched next to a leucistic adult turkey vulture. leucism is a lack of pigmentation in feathers; it can be throughout the full body, or distributed in patches, like in this bird.
hey asshole! you lifted up the rock and now I have to scuttle! motherfucker!
Zoe Saldaña as Anamaria in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Can we talk about how this was literally just sparrington powerplay for a second
Deleted scene (Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, 2006).
Sometimes when my old germophobia tries to kick in because of a dirty public restroom or something I just have to tell myself "hey, there are weird perverts who'd have touched this on purpose, and they're still alive"
conversation i had with my mom
That one post that’s like “Norrington’s only crime was being a Jane Austen hero in a Disney movie based on a theme park ride” has done irreparable damage to society I fear
dracula daily is happening and it's awesome so let's all celebrate lucy/mina
"If Mr. Holmwood fell in love with her seeing her only in the drawing-room, I wonder what he would say if he saw her now." that's not very heterosexual of you girl. <3
i wish yuriverse was real so i could fuck hot cougar milf barbossa.
"Orlando Bloom signed to the movie the day before he showed up to shoot this. He came right in and just got the character. He had about ten minutes to work on the stuff with the sword. The flip and everything like that... But just how well he plays this scene is just amazing. Everything about the character you need to know comes across here."
Stuard Beattie, Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio and Jay Wolpert - Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl audio commentary
I appreciate this GREATLY
The monthly routine yk how it goes
This is true contentment , by the way
downloaded ebird today because i realized ive gotta get more into birding and tell me why the second i started my first checklist i found a new lifer . what powers does cornell laboratory have.
he cheats on you
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People who genuinely ascribe a moral value to specific animals are so strange to me.
Like, if you're genuinely just joking I get it. I love centipedes, but I do also like to joke that they're made of hate, just because of personal experiences. But I am joking.
And they can actually be quite loving parents, they are themselves beautiful and fascinating creatures (toxicognaths are great).
Like, ticks aren't evil guys. They're just hungry.
Dolphins aren't evil, or at least not any more evil than we are. And we aren't evil either, just as a side note.
Mosquitos? Take a guess what I'm gonna say next.
Even the animal you hate most? It's not evil. It has a right to live.
Do you think bed bugs are rubbing their hands together, cackling about how they're gonna torment mankind next? Nah, they just wanna feed and fuck. Which is a mood honestly.
I would just like to say thank you to the bug people who know bug stuff.
Sincerely, someone who doesn't know shit about bugs and just likes them a lot.
I've been learning so much about them recently
downloaded ebird today because i realized ive gotta get more into birding and tell me why the second i started my first checklist i found a new lifer . what powers does cornell laboratory have.
prev this is an excellent site for four letter banding codes and i'm learning good things about my local birds but it is extremely funny to me that the website linked does nothing but DISS these codes
average accipitriformes identifier experience
become familiar with nature in your area. your life will be marginally improved by recognizing the birds singing outside your window or identifying pawprints you see. i promise
this leucistic turkey vulture was spotted perched on a telephone pole in florida. animals with leucism produce a reduced amount of pigments, resulting in either an entirely ‘faded’ body or a ‘pied’ appearance. like albino animals, leucistic animals are particularly vulnerable to predators and harassment from their own species.
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i mean. i guess he is yeah
In a surprising new discovery, scientists have found that two injured individuals of Mnemiopsis leidyi, a species of comb jellies or ctenophores, can fuse into a single entity. This phenomenon, which challenges our typical understanding of biological processes, reveals just how remarkable these planktonic creatures truly are.
Ctenophores, known for their translucent beauty and delicate movement in the ocean, appear to lack a mechanism called allorecognition—the ability to distinguish between self and non-self. This means that, when two comb jellies are injured and placed close together, they can merge, not just physically, but also functionally. Their nervous systems combine, allowing them to share nerve signals (or action potentials), and even their digestive systems become one.
The discovery was made by Dr. Jokura and his team, who were observing comb jellies in a seawater tank. After removing parts of their lobes and placing them side by side, they were astonished to see 9 out of 10 injured comb jellies fuse to form a single organism. Even more fascinating, the newly formed organism survived for at least three weeks, with its muscle contractions fully synchronized within just two hours. The digestive system also fused, enabling food taken in by one mouth to travel through their shared canal and exit through both anuses—although not at the same time!
While the exact benefits of this fusion are still unclear, the researchers believe that studying this phenomenon could provide valuable insights into how organisms integrate nervous systems and even how tissue regeneration occurs. It may also offer clues about immune system functions in species where the lines between individual organisms become blurred.
This discovery offers a glimpse into the hidden potential of the ocean’s lesser-known inhabitants, challenging what we think we know about biological boundaries and cooperation.
Video: Kei Jokura
Reference: Jakura et al., 2024. Rapid physiological integration of fused ctenophores. Current Biology
man, I love this character so much! [fills them with a deep and inescapable yearning which they don’t know how to fill or even name]
no i don’t really want to be a vampire or anything of the sort i’m just a freak pervert and want them to feed on me